Currently not accepting new patients.Paula M. Podrazik, M.D., an associate professor in the Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatrics at UAMS, joined the faculty in July of 2009. A native of Chicago, Dr. Podrazik is a graduate of the Honors Program in Medical Education at Northwestern University Medical School and completed her combined residency in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine at the McGraw Medical Center of Northwestern University. After a ten year career in academic emergency medicine as a clinician-educator and residency director on the east coast. Dr. Podrazik returned to Chicago to complete a fellowship in geriatrics at the McGraw Medical Center of Northwestern University. For the past decade prior to coming to UAMS, Dr. Podrazik was on faculty at the University of Chicago, in the section of geriatrics in a number of key roles including: outpatient clinic director, director of education, and the program director and subsequent principal investigator of the University of Chicago's nationally recognized Reynolds Foundation granted project, 'The Curriculum for the Hospitalized Aging Medical Patient (CHAMP).'A gifted teacher, Dr. Podrazik has received a number of teaching awards including the 'Clinical Excellence and Teaching Award' from the department of medicine at the University of chicago in 2008. At UAMS, Dr. Podrazik serves as the program director for the geriatrics fellowship. She is actively involved in teaching medical students, housestaff and geriatrics fellows and serves as the primary mentor for the Reynolds Department of Geriatrics' first Geriatric Academic Career Award (GACA) junior faculty recipient, Dr. Podrazik also teaches nationally and has most recently taken her CHAMP workshop to medical schools in Texas and the Carolinas. She is published on aspects of improving the quality of clinical care given the hospitalized aging medical patient through educational interventions. Her expertise is on curriculum and faculty development and addressing the process and improvement of teaching geriatrics - focused skills in the complex systems of the fast-paced hospital environment.Dr. Podrazik has served on several national committees including the American Geriatrics Society's health care systems committee and the American Board of Internal Medicine's focused-recognition in hospital medicine design task force. Currently, she serves as the chair of the Reynolds Department of Geriatrics education committee and is actively involved with UAMS graduate medical education as an internal reviewer of the UAMS residency program.Dr. Podrazik is board certified in geriatrics, internal medicine, emergency medicine and American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) certified in hospice and palliative medicine. She sees patients in the Thomas and Lyon Longevity Clinic at the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging as well as on the inpatient geriatrics service at the UAMS Hospital.

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